San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Queen Vic will give 4 public display
OF her jubilee presents.
Archduchess Maria Josepha, dying OF
puerperal fever at Vienna.
Damage to South Carolina rice crop
Is not general.
The colored masonic convention In
Chicago 10 a very Interesting one.
Naples reports 80 cholera cases and 10
deaths.
Nioaraguan veterans Of 1866 have re-
union at st. Louis.
Receiver OF Henrietta National bank
assumes control.
Iowa republicans put a state ticket In
the field by reclamation.
Pension Commissioner Black 10 very
Ill at Ware, N. ii.
The editorial convention 10 called to
meet at Denver, September Is.
Southern Pacific railroad reduces all
fares over three cents mile. one cent.
Mexican officers capture ten horses
and mules loaded with Struggled goods.
Senator Sherman and party have I'm
ished their far west trip and are now In
| the east.
Over 200 members Of the house of
commons have signed the peace MEM
Orial.
The Independent democrats OF Mary
land pledge support to the republican
party this fall.
Tobacco crop OF 1887 covers a very
limited acreage compared to former
years.
A railroad laborer at Fort Worth sues
contractor on Santa Fe road for 81 100
damages, for injury.
Wheeling. Albuquerque and Topeka re-
port fires, and the latter with loss OF
life.
Ives swears he cannot find those miss
ing books and that they are OF no value
anyway.
The orockery dealers OF New York
propose war upon the tea men who give
away crOckery.
Switchmen at Paris, on Frisco road,
strike for higher wages, and yards are
closed.
Railroad Talmage's will Is to be CON-
tested and three children who only re-
oeive $40. each do 1t.
The governed general Of Cuba after
inspecting the custom house discharged
all the employees.
Milwaukee coopers are all out again,
and the brewery coopers are in the
swim.
The united labor party OF New York
select republican In New York to act
as their election commissioner.
Another American citizen, Richard
Stewart, turns up in a Mexican Jail,
while the president goes a-fshing.
The Ennis board of guardians defies
Salisbury's proclamation against the
league.
Pennsylvania state prohibitionists are
In session, and display their usual anti
republican Droclivities.
The Bulgarian army officers want no
concession made by Ferdinand to Rus
STA.
Russia is little sus picious Of Germany,
and is not sure OF Bismark's sincerity.
An immense crowd assembled In Lon
don to protest against the governments
proclamation. The rOtunds overlooked
into two immense outside meetings, the
lord mayor presided and enthusiasm
was at fever heat.
The Parnellites and Gladstonians are
to hold conference today to make
arrangements for tomorrow's fight.
IAKIlES Win hA6b W SEiHu arc re-
speotfully Informed that the Committee
OF Safety have no one employed to turn
their special grindstOne.
EVERY day and hour the evidence
grows more and more conclusive OF the
fatal mistake by congress In its refusal
to pass the Blair educational bill.
SEVERAL liberal members OF the house
OF commons have Joined the prescribed
rIa los lAan NIL Of hn
house Salisbury may find Ii little diff
ficult to deal with them.
ALL hope is not lost for Christian
county, Missouri. A Bald-KnObber
preacher was the first to make his con-
fession to the court and tell what he had
been doing.
HENRY GEORGE has mOnkeyed with the
red flag once too often. 1t will bring
him political death, as surely as though
he was the bovine in Mexican bull
ring and the red flag was waved by
matadOr.
The California Call which suspended
three weeks age resumes operations
This refers to the "Call board" which
split up in the big wheat collapse and
not the newspaper published 10 San
Francisco.
Hon. WILL CUMBACK, OF Indiana, be-
ing q republican, will come back 10 1888,
not go back as saith contemporary.
The democratic hold on the national
government il booked to terminate next
year.
GLADSTONE begins to see OF the desire
Of his heart for the salvation OF Ireland.
The meeting OF English and lrish MEM
bers of parliament In that Dublin coll
ference, shows that the union OF liberal
parties in both Kingdoms is virtually
achieved.
PowDERLY, who has been advertised to
the world as one OF the prophets Of the
new political dispensation to be ushered
| In by the american Party" denies that
he is the prophet or priest Of any dis
| pensation save that of the X. OF l..
The Jersey Lilly is real estate daisy.
| Not content with her New \ ork and
| San Francisco properties, and her Call
fornia ranch, she 10 negotiating for
Long Branch cottage as the most de-
| sirable summer residence she could Sc
lect.
THE protectionists score victory In
the accession Of John Boyle O'Reilly, OF
| the Boston Pilot, to their ranks. The
influence OF this declaration among the
| live Irish Americans OF this country can
hardly be overestimated.
The country has an interstate COM
merce law by virtue OF congressional ac-
ton. An interstate law regulating the
construction OF railroads is now In or
der. Under such law, properly drafted
and aYacutad tho lnaa nf iifa m rail-